For the second consecutive yr, we launched the #LeadingConEducación program designed to empower college students to turn out to be the following technology of Latino professionals. We are going to associate with the Hispanic Heritage Basis to supply instructional grants to 40 highschool seniors and school college students looking for monetary help to pursue the next schooling diploma or full their school diploma.
As a part of our dedication to and help of the following technology of Latinos professionals, we acknowledge the function of schooling and monetary literacy in serving to Latinos tear down the boundaries that preserve them from financial progress. This yr, #LeadingConEducación will double the variety of scholarships from 20 to 40.
What’s the #LeadingconEducación Program?
It’s a multi-year instructional program that helps put together younger Latinos to take management of their funds by means of instructional content material, webinars, and hands-on expertise by means of Intuit TurboTax simulation, a tax preparation train in Spanish and English offered by EverFi.
Presently, just one in 13 college students in underserved colleges have a private finance curriculum within the U.S. Of those who do, the curriculum typically present in a lot of at this time’s colleges lacks the newest real-world, monetary instruments out there for knowledgeable private finance resolution making. This restricted entry to non-public finance information impacts Latino college students disproportionately.
Why Ought to You Apply?
We’re serving to college students develop the sturdy abilities wanted for jobs in a always altering financial system. Intuit does this by means of its private finance, entrepreneurship and profession exploration packages which make the most of merchandise together with TurboTax, Mint and QuickBooks. By Intuit’s Job Readiness Program, Latino college students have free entry to instruments and sources to beat the worry of non-public funds, put together them to file taxes for the primary time, and introduce them to further tax data and tax simulations together with gig-economy, crypto and different funding situations that may guarantee they get the refund they deserve and the very best tax end result.
How Can You Apply?
To study extra about our academic program or to use for a grant or scholarship, go to the #LeadingConEducación web page. The 2022 instructional grants software course of is at the moment open and can run by means of Could eighth.
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